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ONS member Cecily Snyder, BSN, RN, OCN®, BMTCN®, transplant case manager of the blood and marrow transplantation program at Nebraska Medicine in Omaha and member of the Metro Omaha ONS Chapter, joins Stephanie Jardine, BSN, RN, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, to discuss T-cell therapy and how it’s changed approaches to cancer treatment and patient management for oncology nurses.

The drug reference sheets in ONS Voice are a quick guide to newly approved therapies or drugs with new indications. This resource from ONS clinical staff provides information through a nursing lens and includes the drug’s indication, side-effect profile, nursing considerations, patient education talking points, and more.

“Just like with anything we do in oncology, a lot of education is required. Nurses and coordinators are critical to start the education and provide effective resources that are reinforced throughout the treatment,” ONS member Beth Faiman, PhD, MSN, APN-BC, AOCN®, BMTCN®, FAAN, FAPO, advanced practice provider at Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, told Lenise Taylor, MN, RN, AOCNS®, BMTCN®, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, during a conversation about how to address knowledge gaps and barriers to practice regarding patients who are preparing for or who have received CAR T-cell therapy for hematologic malignancies. Faiman was one of the content experts for two ONS focus groups on the topic in March 2023.

Learn more about the FDA Medwatch program and how nurses can recognize and report adverse events through the Recognize it; Report it online resource.

ONS member Theresa Latchford, RN, MS, AOCNS®, BMTCN®, clinical nurse specialist at Stanford Health Care in Palo Alto, CA, and member of the Silicon Valley ONS Chapter, joins Stephanie Jardine, BSN, RN, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, to discuss cytokine release syndrome and its associated immunotherapies. This episode is part of a new series about oncologic emergencies. We’ll add a link to future episodes in the show notes after the second episode next month.

This redesigned and updated program was created with the new oncology advanced practice provider in mind. Through a series of four online courses, learners will get a comprehensive look at of the basics of cancer and its treatment, symptom and side effect management, and the identification of and management of oncologic emergencies with content designed for the advanced practice provider.   

ONS member Virginia Bayer, BSN, RN, CCRP, research nurse supervisor at MD Anderson Cancer Center, joins ONS’s Barbara Lubejko, MS, RN, to discuss checkpoint inhibitors, their impact on patient care, what oncology nurses need to know about immunotherapies, and much more.

Annette Quinn, RN, MSN, program manager in the department of radiation at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania and member of the ONS Greater Pittsburgh Chapter, joins ONS’s Kathleen Wiley, RN, MSN, AOCNS®, director of oncology nursing practice, to discuss what all oncology nurses need to know about caring for patients receiving radiation treatment, the different types of radiation therapies, collaboration with medical oncology, and monitoring and managing radiation’s late effects in survivorship.